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Balcony solar took off in Germany. Why not the US?

April 25, 2025 Energi Staff

This article was published by Grist on April 25, 2025. By Akielly Hu Raymond Ward wants to see solar panels draped over every balcony in the United States and doesn’t understand why that isn’t happening. [Read more]

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Opportunity for Germany’s energy transition to strengthen its security and competitiveness

April 7, 2025 Energi Staff

This article was published by the International Energy Agency on April 7, 2025. As greater shares of renewables enter the power mix, IEA recommends Germany optimize its electricity system to lower costs and accelerate emissions [Read more]

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How Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels

September 27, 2024 Energi Staff

This article was published by Grist on Sept. 26, 2024. By Akielly Hu Matthias Weyland loves having people ask about his balcony. A pair of solar panels hang from the railing, casting a sheen of [Read more]

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Germany won’t need Canadian gas as renewables surge, green hydrogen beckons

September 24, 2024 Energi Staff

This article was published by The Energy Mix on Sept. 23, 2024. By Mitchell Beer Germany will be looking to Canada for green hydrogen exports, but not so much for natural gas, as the country [Read more]

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Green hydrogen hopes flounder as 2025 shipping date looms

April 5, 2024 Energi Staff

This article was published by The Energy Mix on April 4, 2024. Canada’s grand plan to sell “green” hydrogen to Germany are beginning to flounder, hydrogen experts from the two countries argue in a recent [Read more]

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Canada, Germany multi-billion dollar deal secures early market access for clean Canadian hydrogen

March 19, 2024 Energi Staff

Canada is working with its European allies to displace imports of Russian oil and gas and fight climate change with clean Canadian hydrogen. On Monday, the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, [Read more]

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‘Solve the f***ing problems,’ German economy minister urges, in blunt critique of U.S. emissions

March 12, 2024 Energi Staff

This article was published by The Energy Mix on March 11, 2024. German economy and climate action minister Robert Habeck has delivered a blunt critique of United States climate policy and per capita emissions, urging [Read more]

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Ukraine war: Tracking the impacts on German energy and climate policy

March 9, 2022 Energi Staff

This article was published by Clean Energy Wire on March 9, 2022. By Sören AmelangKerstine AppunnBenjamin Wehrmann The war in Ukraine forces Germany to radically rethink its energy policy, given that the country is heavily [Read more]

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Germany to spend 200 billion euros on energy transition in independence push

March 8, 2022 Energi Staff

This article was published by Clean Energy Wire on March 7, 2022. By Benjamin Wehrmann ARD/Reuters The German government has earmarked about 200 billion euros for investments in decarbonization and greater independence from imported fossil fuels over the [Read more]

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Germany’s Energiewende shows energy transitions are damned difficult

January 2, 2021 Markham Hislop

Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews Dr. Gunther Bachmann, a former director of the German Council for Sustainable Development, about the challenges posed by his country’s energy transition plan, the Energiewende. Related stories: [Read more]

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Commission proposes Germany coal use to be phased out by 2038

May 30, 2019 Energi Staff

By Kien Chau This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on May 29, 2019. In January 2019, Germany’s government-appointed coal commission introduced a proposed pathway to phase out all coal electricity generation by [Read more]

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Some petroleum products shipments impacted by low Rhine River

October 30, 2018 Energi Staff

The Rhine River, which runs northwest from Switzerland through Germany, France, and the Netherlands into the North Sea, is a major petroleum product transportation corridor.  Getty Images photo. Higher prices for petroleum products imports due to [Read more]

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Trump trying to bully Europe into buying US LNG: Kremlin

July 12, 2018 Energi Staff

The Kremlin took a swing at US President Donald Trump’s assertion that Germany was a “captive” of Russia because it relies on Russia for some of its natural gas needs.  NBC News photo. US LNG [Read more]

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Refueling station of the future to deliver electricity, hydrogen or methane

February 26, 2018 Markham Hislop

New filling station primary generation is electricity that would use large batteries to supply high demand times Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Cars equipped with electric engines or other alternative drives are making [Read more]

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The Canadian energy conversation is stuck in the wrong century

by Markham Hislop in Markham on Energy

Find Energi Media journalism in video, audio, and essays YouTube Channel: Video energy news Substack Essays: Thoughtful Energy Journalism Energi Talks Audio Podcast Real story of this energy crisis is not supply disruption, but demand [Read more]

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